Telehealth Training Is Essential to Care for Underserved Populations: a Medical Student Perspective

Telehealth is an area of medicine which has magnified the ability to treat patients remotely. Presently the education of medical professionals pertaining to the value, use, and implementation of telehealth is not adequate to harness the potential of available technologies. Patients engaging in teleh...

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Published inMedical science educator Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 1287 - 1290
Main Authors Camhi, Stephanie S., Herweck, Alexandra, Perone, Hanna
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.09.2020
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Education
Medical Education
e-health
Preclinical medical education
Telemedicine
Telehealth
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Summary:Telehealth is an area of medicine which has magnified the ability to treat patients remotely. Presently the education of medical professionals pertaining to the value, use, and implementation of telehealth is not adequate to harness the potential of available technologies. Patients engaging in telehealth experience time and cost savings, improved disease management through remote monitoring programs, and high-quality care regardless of geographic location. Despite this, medical education has been slow to evolve. It is therefore imperative that medical curricula incorporate training for this rapidly advancing mode of healthcare delivery to enable students to best care for their future patient population.
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ISSN:2156-8650
2156-8650
DOI:10.1007/s40670-020-01008-w